Wherio · August 25th, 2026
Five real historical events. Guess where each one happened, then compare your score with the answers and locations below.
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1. Cabinet ministers descend six metres into a lagoon and sign a declaration underwater.
Answer: 🇲🇻 Maldives · Oct 17th, 2009
The Maldives cabinet signed its climate appeal on the floor of a lagoon.
2. A coral 'Stonehenge of the Pacific' trilithon is raised.
Answer: 🇹🇴 Tonga · c. 1200
Ha'amonga 'a Maui may have tracked the solstice.
3. Mansa Musa, one of history's richest rulers, makes a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and spends so much gold that he disrupts economies along the way.
Answer: 🇲🇱 Mali · 1320s
Mansa Musa recruited scholars and helped establish Timbuktu as a center of Islamic learning.
4. Between the Limpopo and the Zambezi, Cecil Rhodes' pioneers raise a flag at a fort that will become their colony's capital.
Answer: 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Sep 13th, 1890
The flag was raised at Fort Salisbury, near today's Harare Kopje.
5. A prince proclaims its full independence from Ottoman rule in an old capital, then takes the title tsar.
Answer: 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Sep 22nd, 1908
Bulgaria became a kingdom and Prince Ferdinand took the title tsar.
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